If there is any potential left in the UK, it will be destroyed by the BBB/#NetZero agendas, because there is nothing the government and big UK capital is more determined to do than destroy creativity and independence. It may, however, be turned into a rent-seekers paradise.
If Octopus is a 'tech company', I am an Olympic swimmer.
Making apps that ration energy use is not development.
'Invention' that merely takes design briefs from flagship government policy is not R&D, but servicing politics.
The UK government in particular believes 'innovation' (pka R&D) happens because policy mandates it.
One consequence of this is that they funnel large amounts of money to the landlords of 'incubators' -- serviced offices essentially.
Another is that large amounts of money are pumped into organisations that don't really need it, to do things that the government wants... See here for e.g... ukri.org/opportunity/
An example... £12 million quid for projects that may help the government achieve its policy objective of grid storage -- which should surely exist before policy that requires it was drafted.
Firms & others will take the money, but will have nothing to show for it.
This too, you see is a desperate attempt to close the gap between policy ambition and reality.
Because the policy cart was put before the technology horse.
They could have had the R&D competition -- and feasibility and cost-benefit analyses -- before the policymaking.
Are you a woman? If not, self-define as one and have this £50K pat on the head at the taxpayers' expense.
Could you build an AI-powered robot Greta to help catalyse saving the planet through quantum technologies and digital twinning?
If you can pretend that you understand this gibberish, then the government has a £62K cheque with your name on it.
Stop Skynet becoming a humanity-destroying bastard, and you can win £81K!!!
It's so freakin' weird.
Just switch the AI off if it's such a problem.
The environmental sciences are dominated by racists, misogynists, transphobes and homophobes, that the government has set aside £400K for ideological reprogramming.
You see, this is how it works...
The ideological agenda is embedded in the funding streams.
Nobody is going to get any money for research that shows the UK govt's "economics of biodiversity" agenda is ideological bullshit.
But that *is* what's needed.
It's so desperate. It's kind of sad.
Asking 'researchers' to research 'productivity' is like asking drunks to research sobriety.
What do you think they will spend the money on?
Are you a rubbish artist?
Do an art that will only be seen by people who are already terrified of climate change and the government will give you £30,000 of other people's money.
Did you ever wonder why the BBC was so bereft of ideas?
It's because the ideas community has a direct line into the BBC ideas department.
Anyway, there are pages and pages and pages of these offers of public money for 'researchers' and companies in return for alignment with the government's agenda.
The public doesn't get anything in return for them, other than stupid policies and bloated 'research' organisations.
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And I don't think urging other countries to war at our expense is any definition of "standing with" worth defending.
Hundreds of thousands are now dead because of "standing with". Hundreds of thousands more are now fatherless, sonless, widowed...
You make a claim on behalf of "Britain" that you have never tested, and which your Prime Ministers could not even deliver for us.
Do you stand with people who are now scattered in bits across eastern Ukraine? How does one "stand with" people who lay beneath the ground? How does one express "solidarity" with young men snatched from the streets to be forced to the front line against their will?
Other people's wars make Toryboys feel all big and important about "global Britain". But their Ukrainian counterparts' children will never know their fathers. War is glorious when you don't have your comrade's guts blasted across your face. They've no idea what they "stand with".
Did you ever wonder how David Miliband, who oversaw the development of the Climate Change Act (and consequently Net Zero) landed a job worth a $million a year as a director of a charity?
Wonder no more...
Those are just *some* of the grants made by the government to the charity now directed by the former government minister.
He's worth every penny of that million bucks a year, as far as his extremely-well paid colleagues and appointers are concerned.
@CharlotteCGill @WokeWaste @procurementfile - if you haven't seen this tranche, it's worth taking a peek at. (On CF and DT).
They're like mini-milibands. They don't know how human language and communication work.
They are only able to invent stories about their political counterparts, to smear them. But they have no capacity for reason of their own.
I think the profound collapse of our democracy is understated. We are inured to it.
But here it is: a legislator claiming that another legislator is "pro-Russian" for his celebration of a newly democratically-appointed counterpart in an allied country.
BBC Media Action -- claims that "a free press is essential to freedom and democracy".
But when I revealed that @bbcmediaaction was working on behalf of dodgy billionaires and governments, to enforce particular political agendas they blocked me.
@bbcmediaaction Here is the thread that offended them...
I'd call Gill Tavner a liar, but she's mainly just ignorant.
Children were deliberately targeted by the green movement at large, and their anxieties were deliberately provoked precisely to make them adherents of green ideology.
Here's my video explaining Why There is No Climate Crisis (and why people believe that there is). If you've seen it before, move to the 17 minute mark.
There you will see the late Rajendra Pachauri talking about "sensitising the young" to climate alarmism.
You will also see extremely young children -- far younger than 12 -- regurgitating claims that were manifestly produced by the adults in their lives, including the green movement, not ideas they have produced by themselves. And those ideas are moreover false.
I don't think Dale Vince really understands how the green movement was conceived, founded, and pushed to the top of national and global political agendas.